Reproduction Material - From Hashtags to Ballots

This repository includes data and code for reproducing the analysis in the main paper as well as the supplementary material for the paper "From hashtags to ballots: Conceptualizing political influencers and evaluating their impact on election outcomes".

The supplementary material of our paper includes an overview of all R packages and corresponding versions required to run our code.

Files are organized as follows:

- "insta_posts_coded" includes our dataset for coded Instagram posts of political influencers
- "btw2021_influencers_survey" includes our dataset for the survey of German citizens related to the federal elections, 2021
- "instagram_analysis" includes our code for analyzing the Instagram posts
- "survey_analysis" includes our code for analyzing the survey data

Please note that we are not allowed to share all of the data used for this publication. In particular, we are anable to share the images and videos of Instagram posts. However, using the crowsourced codings of Instagram content included in our dataset, you can still reproduce our findings without having access to the raw data.

In case of any questions or inquiries regarding access to the raw data, please reach out to Carsten Schwemmer
via c.schwem2er@gmail.com